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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
« Reply #705 on: April 20, 2018, 12:30:29 PM »
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    Why should I have to go through such exhausting mental gymnastics to realize what is evident?
    It's not mental gymnastics, it's a matter of law.  To enact, revise or revoke a law requires a PROCESS and one that cannot be done willy-nilly, haphazardly, etc.  Law is very precise and must be.

    Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean anything.  First, are you trained to understand it?  Second, do you have the patience/personality to WANT to understand it?  I would say 'no' to both for you.  (and I don't mean that as a criticism).  Many people might have the WANT, but not the training to read legal docuмents and to read the legal interpretation of what they mean.  I'm not a lawyer but i've had some legal-related jobs.  I'm not an expert at all, but my point is, if you're not used to reading legal docuмents, it will seem like a different language (which it is). 

    If you want to learn legal stuff, and become self-taught, then go for it.  But describing legal details as "mental gymnastics" is wrong.  I mean, if I try to read the Church Fathers interpretation of Scripture, where they talk about Greek and Hebrew meanings and tranlsations, wouldn't it be wrong, impatient, and stupid for me to say "well, they're just being too detailed and full of themselves when they talk about this or that meaning, or singular vs plural.  Just give us a translation and be done with it."  That would be a very rash and impatient response.  THE MEANING OF LANGUAGE MATTERS, especially in law!

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    The Novus Ordo Mass is an invalid rite, not because it did not come from the "Infallible Magisterium" or because the wording "all vs. many" or the priest facing the people, nor the altar girls or the immodest women at the rail; but for the simple reason that the ONLY person on earth with the power of introducing and approving new rites for the Church, this is, the Sovereign Pontiff, was an illegitimate impostor.

    He was a false Pope.
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    I suspect it because of the Magisterial contradiction in the setting of an Ecunemical Council. Mainly in the docuмents Lumen Gentium, Nostra Aetate; and Dignitatis Humanae.
    Ok, so you're saying Paul VI was a false pope because V2 contradicts Tradition, right?  But WHEN did he become a false pope?  Before or after the council?
    Your statement above indicates that you say he was an imposter BECAUSE OF the council, which means he was validly elected and a valid pope AT THE START OF the council?  Yes?


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #706 on: April 20, 2018, 01:00:41 PM »
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  • This must be the silliest argument I have heard for a while. Hopefully, those who are not participating in this thread realize the extent that R&R must go in order to support their nonsense.
    I am starting to wonder, Mr. Drew, if you are actually responding to ME in this thread or just copying and pasting from other articles you write, which are actually quite irrelevant to my replies.

    In the previous post, I used the exact wording posted by Fr. Kramer. Posted by YOU:

    My question:

    What makes Mr. Kramer and you think that the Pope of Rome falls into the rank of "any ecclesiastical pastor"?

    Cantarella,

    Corrupting a translation, or using a corrupted translation, of a dogma (or for that matter, any papal docuмent) is a grave sin and canonical crime which carries a penalty of excommunication.  You have used a translation that serious Catholics have been addressing for more than 40 years because the corruption destroys the meaning of God's revealed truth.  You are the first I have ever heard characterize this crime as "one of the silliest arguments I have heard in a long time." I am very pleased to have the comments of Fr. Gregory Hesse explaining the implications of your error to others, but his explanation is unfortunately lost on you. 
     
    Fr. Hesse also addressed the question you have concerning the pope being an "ecclesiastical pastor." But since he did not convince you, a simple method is to examine the Magisterial docuмent Pastor Aeternus (Eternal Pastor) from Vatican I. The word "pastor" derives from the Latin noun pastor which means "shepherd" and relates to the Latin verb pascere – "to lead to pasture, set to grazing, cause to eat". The term "pastor" also relates to the role of elder within the New Testament (Wiki). The very charge to St. Peter from Jesus Christ to, "feed My lambs, feed My sheep," means 'to pastor' His flock.  The metaphor of the Good Shepherd is intended to give the same teaching. The word, "ecclesiastical" is the adjective of ecclesia which means "Church".
     
    You are denying that the pope is an "ecclesiastical pastor." He is so be definition. In fact, if the pope were not an "ecclesiastical pastor", He could not be the chief "ecclesiastical pastor" of the entire Church. Vatican I, in the Magisterial docuмent, Pastor Aeternus, uses the term "pastor" to refer specifically to the pope.
     
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    And it was to Peter alone that Jesus, after his resurrection, confided the jurisdiction of Supreme Pastor and ruler of his whole fold, saying: "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep".
    Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus

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    This power of the Supreme Pontiff by no means detracts from that ordinary and immediate power of episcopal jurisdiction, by which bishops, who have succeeded to the place of the apostles by appointment of the Holy Spirit, tend and govern individually the particular flocks which have been assigned to them. On the contrary, this power of theirs is asserted, supported and defended by the Supreme and Universal Pastor; for St. Gregory the Great says: "My honor is the honor of the whole Church. My honor is the steadfast strength of my brethren. Then do I receive true honor, when it is denied to none of those to whom honor is due."
    Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus

    So if you want to know "what makes me think that the pope in Rome falls into the rank of 'any ecclesiastical pastor'", it is the declarations from the Magisteriuim of the Church.  And if you want to know "who makes me think that the pope in Rome falls into the rank of 'any ecclesiastical pastor'", it is God.
     
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #707 on: April 20, 2018, 02:08:04 PM »
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  • The Tridentine Catechism makes mention of the existence of "many solemn rites and ceremonies" used in the Sacrifice of the Mass, none of which should be deemed useless or superfluous.

    If Paul VI was indeed Pope, you are not allowed to condemn his Novus Ordo rite without falling into Anathema.

    Cantarella,

    If you read the address given by Pope Paul VI when he announced the Novus Ordo you will see that he dates the liturgical development to the  Pian Commission which began in 1948 under secretary Annibale Bugnini. Paul VI specifically says that the Novus Ordo has its roots in the 1955 changes to Holy Week. What also may be of interest to you to learn is that Bugnini in his book published in 1990, The Reform of the Liturgy 1948 to 1976, says that the first principles of liturgical reform were adopted by the Pian Commission from the very beginning, never changed, and were consistently applied throughout his tenure.
     
    Any traditional Catholic association using any Roman Missal published after 1955 is using a Bugnini transitional Missal.  The current common usage of the 1962 Indult Missal that is in common usage, is in fact a Bugnini transitional Missal.  When Bugnini was asked in 1962 (the mid-point of his liturgical leadership) if that version of the Missal was his last, he replied:
     

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    “Not by any stretch of the imagination. Every good builder begins by removing the gross accretions, the evident distortions; then with more delicacy and attention he sets out to revise particulars.  The latter remains to be achieved for the Liturgy so that the fullness, dignity and harmony may shine forth once again.”
    The Organic Development of the Liturgy by Fr. Alcuin Reid

    There were several versions of transitional Missals between 1962 and the publication of the Novus Ordo, all of which were approved by Paul VI before the final Novus Ordo. The 1962 Missal had all the "gross accretions, the evident distortions" of the immemorial "received and approved" Roman rite of Mass removed by Bugnini, and this continued right up to 1969 with hardly a month passing by without some new corruption being imposed. In fact, except for the three additional canons, there was very little "new" about the Novus Ordo in 1969 that had not already been implemented.
     
    Not only is it a dogma that the "received and approved" rites may not be changed by "any pastor of the churches whomsoever," it is also required from the Council of Florence that every pastor offer the Mass according to the "custom" of his rite. The acceptance of the "received and approved" rite was incorporated into the Tridentine Profession of Faith.  It is a dogma, a formal object of divine and Catholic faith.
     
    Since you hold the pope as your rule of faith and believe that liturgical worship is a matter of mere Church discipline, then you have no doctrinal or moral ground to reject his form of worship. I hold dogma as the rule of faith and keep to the "received and approved" rites of the Catholic Church. I formally reject the notion that the immemorial ecclesiastical traditions of the Church are matters of mere discipline but are necessary attributes of the faith by which it can be known and communicated to others. I also hold to the Catholic moral principle that no human authority has the power to impose anything injurious to the faith, and that every Catholic is morally required to reject anything that is injurious to the faith. Furthermore, I have submitted this Rome as is my right as a baptized Catholic for a formal definitive Magisterial judgment which I am morally bound to do.

    None of this requires getting rid of the pope which leads only to greater error, formal heresy, and ultimately despair.
     
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #708 on: April 20, 2018, 02:31:01 PM »
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  • I guess we can both agree that the canon in Latin is the most accurate, so here it is:




    "Aut in novus alios per quencuмque ecclesiarum pastorem mutari posse".

    "To be changed by any pastor of the Churches".

    You are drowning in a glass of water because regardless of the English translation that is used, every pastor, any pastor, a pastor....Trent is not referring to the Pope of Rome!. The Roman Pontiff does not fall into this condition. The Pope alone as a Vicar of Christ on earth can approve and introduce new ecclesiastical rites as he has done in the past. Also, Paul VI didn't make ANY changes to the "approved and received" Tridentine Rite. He promulgated a new order of Mass, a new Rite.

    You are really going to excruciating efforts to defend what is indefensible. And really, you got nothing but your personal deductions.

    Cantarella,

    I am reposting Canon Gregory Hesse's video at the time (19:10) that he directly answers and corrects your error. You only need to listen for a couple of minutes. It won't hurt.

    https://youtu.be/2gPX7XEBdUQ?t=1148

    Since you hold Dogma in such contempt that its literal meaning can be wholly disregarded, you will have no one but yourself to blame for the consequences, and I am telling you that it is a matter of eternal salvation. You will also have to account for the error in which you may have influenced others. Dogma is the proximate rule of faith and serves as a "landmark" for Catholics trying to keep the faith in troubled times.  "Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess". (Deuteronomy 19:14) And again, "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen" (Deuteronomy 17:17)

    Lastly, your statement, "The Pope alone as a Vicar of Christ on earth can approve and introduce new ecclesiastical rites as he has done in the past," is pure make believe.  There is not a single example in all of Church history of a pope "introduce(ing) new ecclesiastical rites."

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #709 on: April 20, 2018, 02:38:20 PM »
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    The Tridentine Catechism makes mention of the existence of "many solemn rites and ceremonies" used in the Sacrifice of the Mass, none of which should be deemed useless or superfluous.

    If Paul VI was indeed Pope, you are not allowed to condemn his Novus Ordo rite without falling into Anathema.
    Quo Primum was made a law AFTER the council of Trent.  The only rites and ceremonies allowed AFTER Quo Primum are 1) those rites 200+ years old as of 1570ish, 2) Tridentine rite.  That's it.

    Since the law hasn't changed, then as of today, the only 2 categories of masses/rites are the 2 above.  Paul VI can create a new rite all he wants, but it is illegal to use it.


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #710 on: April 20, 2018, 02:56:56 PM »
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    I am reposting Canon Gregory Hesse's video at the time (19:10) that he directly answers and corrects your error. You only need to listen for a couple of minutes. It won't hurt.

    https://youtu.be/2gPX7XEBdUQ?t=1148
    Good research, Drew.  I'm going to have to listen more to Fr Hessee; i've never heard him speak before.
    Cantarella,
    He also makes a great point, one which I have been making, is that, as a matter of law, the roman missal is NOT a mere disciplinary act.  It is much, much more.  Listen starting at 29:35.

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #711 on: April 20, 2018, 03:17:09 PM »
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  • We were blessed to be able to attend his conferences whenever possible. We listened to this yesterday. There is another video on Papal Infallibility which is highly recommended and covers what we have been discussing on this video. Enjoy:





             
     


    The love of God be your motivation, the will of God your guiding principle, the glory of God your goal.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #712 on: April 20, 2018, 03:25:19 PM »
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  • Pope Pius XII is explicit and clear about this teaching in Mediator Dei:

    Which is based upon the 1917 Code of Canon Law, # 1257.






    The Holy See alone has the right to enact the form of the Sacred Liturgy, as well as to approve the liturgical books.

    Because the Holy See is vacant (on account of an impostor acting as "Sovereign Pontiff") the Novus Ordo Mass IS NOT A RITE EITHER PROMULGATED OR USED BY THE CHURCH.


    Why don't you try reading the replies before you answer? That has already been addressed.

    https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/is-father-ringrose-dumping-the-r-r-crowd/msg604807/#msg604807
    The love of God be your motivation, the will of God your guiding principle, the glory of God your goal.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #713 on: April 20, 2018, 03:30:35 PM »
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  • Once this thread reaches 100 pages, I'm out. 

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #714 on: April 20, 2018, 03:32:12 PM »
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    I believe Montini's election was invalid because he was not Catholic. 
    Do you mean he was excommunicated because he was a freemason, or that he apostatized?

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #715 on: April 20, 2018, 03:34:42 PM »
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  • We were blessed to be able to attend his conferences whenever possible. We listened to this yesterday. There is another video on Papal Infallibility which is highly recommended and covers what we have been discussing on this video. Enjoy:

          
     
    I only heard of him off and on and *wrongly*, did not think much of Fr. Hesse until just recently - I changed my tune quick after I actually listened to his talks. I have downloaded them all and listened to most of the ones posted here.

    Well worth the time for every trad to pay attention and listen to this priest's clear thinking and irrefutable explanations on many issues regarding this crisis. 
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #716 on: April 20, 2018, 03:51:02 PM »
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  • Cantarella's contradiction #904:

    Why was Paul VI not the pope?
    Her Answer:  I suspect it because of the Magisterial contradiction in the setting of an Ecunemical Council. Mainly in the docuмents Lumen Gentium, Nostra Aetate; and Dignitatis Humanae.


    So, her reason for Paul VI not being the pope is because V2 contradicts Tradition.


    Why is the new mass wrong?
    Her Answer: The Holy See alone has the right to enact the form of the Sacred Liturgy, as well as to approve the liturgical books.  Because the Holy See is vacant (on account of an impostor acting as "Sovereign Pontiff") the Novus Ordo Mass IS NOT A RITE EITHER PROMULGATED OR USED BY THE CHURCH.


    So, her reason for Paul VI's mass being wrong is because V2 contradicts Tradition.  For if V2 did NOT contradict Tradition, then the pope would have authority to create the new mass.


    So where is the contradiction?
    1.  She has said repeatedly, ad nauseum, that an ecuмenical council is infallible.  Yet when V2 teaches something against Tradition, she says it's no longer infallible, it's an error and is a "proof" that Paul VI wasn't pope.  Circular logic.

    2.  She has said repeatedly, ad nauseum, that a pope's personal faith "cannot fail".  Yet when Paul VI "taught" error at V2 which was against Tradition, she says his faith didn't fail - it's just "proof" he wasn't pope.  Again, Circular logic.

    On the one hand, she says it's a "dogma" that an ecuмenical council is infallible.  On the other hand, she says it's a "dogma" that the pope's personal faith "cannot fail".  One of them (and most likely both) are wrong; obviously, they aren't dogmas.  But, the V2 situation has shown her views to be contradictory.  Either one of the above MUST BE FALSE (and probably both.)  Which one is wrong, Cantarella?

    The only answer you can make is to say that Paul VI was NEVER pope to begin with, which would be ANOTHER CONTRADICTION of your above, first statement.  Of course, that begs the question of "why wasn't he the pope?".  And since you don't have objective, public evidence like a V2 to point to, your reasons would be highly subjective and very uncertain.

    Thus, the foundation of sedevacantism is shown to be quite shaky...

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #717 on: April 20, 2018, 04:01:29 PM »
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  • Ma'am, there's nothing wrong with the source I provided.  

    However, there is definitely something wrong with a quote you provided on this thread...

    There is no such person as Bishop Brizen...he does not exist

    If this quote is true, where is the letter?


    Actually,  Fr. Hesse has the exact quote with the source (and much more) on the video on Papal Infallibility I posted today. I just posted the first I found online to save time. 
    The love of God be your motivation, the will of God your guiding principle, the glory of God your goal.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
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  • For those who don't know Fr. Hesse:


    Gregory Hesse

    Gregory Hesse, S.T.D., J.C.D. of Vienna, Austria was ordained in 1981 in St. Peter's Basilica. He held doctorates in both Thomistic theology and Canon Law. From 1986-88 he served as Secretary to Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican. From 1991, he worked in Austria, Germany and the United States giving lectures and producing theological articles that appeared in Catholic Family News, The Fatima Crusader and other journals. He died of complications due to diabetes on 25 January 2006. Fr. Hesse spoke extensively on the true and false understanding of Papal infallibility and the modern errors in the understanding of sacred tradition, religious liberty and ecuмenism brought about by the errors or obscurity and lack of definition in the docuмents of Vatican II based on established Church teaching from previous councils and Papal encyclicals. He also spoke on the question of the new Mass of Pope Paul VI making distinctions between the terms "valid" and "licit" again supported by past Church teaching.

    The love of God be your motivation, the will of God your guiding principle, the glory of God your goal.
    (St. Clement Mary Hofbauer)

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #719 on: April 20, 2018, 04:54:35 PM »
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  • A more reason for despair is to think that a legitimate successor of St. Peter could authorize an invalid or sacrilegious Mass worldwide without the gates of Hell having prevailed against us. And we know, infallibly, that that is impossible.

    Guarding the Sacred Liturgy is part of the duty of the Church. Pope Pius XI made it clear in his Apostolic Constitution, Divini Cultus:

    A child can see that if the conciliar popes are true popes, then the Holy See has indeed "received and approved" the Novus Ordo rite given that the Popes themselves along with the entire ecclesiastical hierarchy and millions of Catholics throughout the world have been saying it publicly for decades. If the Church, in promulgating the NOM has failed in her duty to safeguard divine worship, then the Church has defected from an essential part of her mission.

    So instead of entertaining the possibility of an actual crypto - Jєω infiltrating the Seat of Peter (directly proportional to the raising socio-economic Judaic power over the globe), which would explain every.single.thing. and more, you stubbornly cling to the fact that the Pope has defected, the Magisterium has defected, the Liturgy has defected. Basically, in your position, the gates of Hell have prevailed against the Roman Catholic Church.  

    If Paul VI was indeed pope, you have a defected Church.

    Cantarella,

    You just don't get it. It is you that belong to a church that has no pope, no Magisterium, no rule of faith and has no intent or means to ever get them. You are in a church that cannot be the Catholic Church outside of which there is neither forgiveness of sins or the possibility of salvation. You shouldn't worry about anyone but yourself. Pope Pius XI, Divini Cultus, only proves that the conciliar popes have failed in their duty. That is there problem.  Our problem is how to keep the faith and the proper worship of God in spite of the failing of the conciliar popes.
     
    As I have previously said, the Indefectibility of the Church pertains primarily to the worship of God and the sanctification of souls.  The proof that the Church is Indefectible is that Catholics faithful to dogma and the "received and approved" rites of the sacraments have never been absent from the Church despite the constant contumely of the conciliar popes.  
     
    It is impossible that the "received and approved" rites are the Novus Ordo.  It is impossible because anything "received" comes from someone before us as St. Paul says, "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread" (1 Cor.11:23). Divine worship has from the beginning been "received" and handed on.  If you ever read Dom Gueranger's Liturgical Year one of the most striking facts is that Rome has had very, very little to do with the development with the "received and approved" immemorial Roman rite of Mass. Typically a local tradition is established and spreads and, what may be hundreds of years later, Rome acknowledges the tradition and offers it to the universal Church. The liturgy is the work of the Holy Ghost, not the work of man. 
     
    It matters not one iota if Rome defects as long as you remain faithful. The great apostasy has been prophesied and Cardinal Manning said that every Church Father who wrote on the subject says Rome will fall from the faith although he did not specifically identify the hierarchy as responsible.  The mystics also speak of the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, undergoing a passion analogous to what our Head suffered. Why should the Passion of the Church scandalize you: "Christ crucified, unto the Jєωs indeed a stumbling block, and unto the Gentiles foolishness" (1 Cor. 1:23)?  St. John of the Cross speaks of the annihilation of Jesus Christ in His Passion: Annihilated in His person because physically destroyed, annihilated in His reputation because He was held in contempt by all, annihilated in His soul because He was abandoned by His Father. The Church will suffer an analogous annihilation and those who are scandalized by her in her Passion will walk away. 
     
    We have the promise of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima, "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, Russia will be converted...." Those who share in the Passion of the Church will rise gloriously with her. Those that walk away will not.
     
    Drew